Hydrocarbon-burner.



J. R. GREEN.

HYDROOARBON BURNER.

APPLICATION rum) 1111.31, 1911.

1,021,186. Patented Mar. 26, 1912. V

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JOHN R. GREEN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

H'YDROCARBOlT-BURNER.

Application filed January 31, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented llylar, 26, 1912.

Serial No. 605,761.

' eathen-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hydro-carbon burners.

The object of my invention is to produce ahydrocarbon burner which is simple in construction, etlicient in operation, and which will economically produce a very hot Similar reference characters denote similar parts.

1 denotes a body having a stean'i chamber 52, one end of which is normally closed by a screw tl'ircadeijl cap 3 WillCl't engages the screw threaded end of the body. A conductor at having a cut oil valve I; is connect: ed at one end with a suitable water supply, not shown, the other end being extended through and secured, preferably by screw threaded connection with. the cap 3. The said CfllttltttJtOt t serves as a water inlet. for the steam chamber 2. The opposite end of the body '1 is provided with an upwardly extending goose neck portion 6, through which exit-suds a downwartilly inclined oil duct '7, having connected to its upper end an oil comluetor 8, preferably of U form,

. and having its other end connected to an oil tanlt. t), disposed, prelerably so that the oil will flow by gravity through the conductor ti to the duct 7. liy having the conductor of U Form, any small amount of sediment passing from the tank 9 will collect at the bottom oi the U instead of pass ing into and possibly clogging the duct 7. In the. conihmtor 8 'is located it shut otl' valve 10.

duct; 7 will strike and be deflected and diffused by said plane surface 11. In the goose neck portion (5 is provided a steam passage 12 which,at one end communicates with the Chamber 2 adjacent to but separated from the top of said chamber. The other end of the passage 12 discharges, as is shown in Fig, 3, into the oil duct 7 toward the outlet thereof. The steam pressure is thus added to the gravity pressure of the oil for forming the jet which is impinged against the deflecting surface 11.

It will be noted that the discharge end of the duct '7 is downwardly inclined and subi-tittl'ltlttlly perpendicular to the plane surface 11. By having the said duct down- "rrdly inclined at its discharge end, all of the oil will run out of said end when the use of the burner ceases, thus eliminating the liability of tlie'end of the duct being dogged by oil remainin therein. By having the discharge end 0 said duct substantially perpendicular to the plane surface 11, a greater heating effect is produced than would be eil'ected if the duct were disposed so as to he oblique to said lane surface. In the latter case a current o: air would be rnoduced which would tend to cool the surface.

[is will be sleep by referring to Fig. 3, the duct 7 and steam passage 12 are so connected with each other, that the oil passing through the duct? will not run down into the steam passage, hut wili run out: the outlet end of the duetv i, when, there is no steam pressure, as well as when there isa steam pressure. Hupporteifl by one or more devices, such as screws, .3, ::-;crured to the under side of the body i is a drip pan 14, so disposed as to catch, in theordinary manner oil dripping from the duct 7.

in operating my intention, the valve 10 is lirst opened, thus permitting; oil to pass from the tank t) through the conductor 8 to and through the duct '7. From the duct 7 it will run into the drip pan 14. When a sutlicient quantity has been collected in the drip pan, the valve I0 is closed and the oil in the pan ignited, thereby heating the body I sutliriently to change water entering the chamber 1 into steam. 'lhevvalve 5 is then opened, thus permitting water to flow through the conductor 4 into chamber 'iwherethe water is converted into steam,

which passes through the passage 12 and mingles with oil, which is now to pass into the duct 7 by opening the valve 10. The, jet composed of steam and oil is then ignited. The heat of the burning jet retains the body 1 sufficiently heated to convert the water entering the chamber 2 into steam, thereby continuing the process.

By having the inlet end of the passage 12 located adjacent to but slightly lower than the top of, the chamber 1, the steam carried from the chamb r is neither too dry nor too wet, but contains the proper amount of moisture to ITeot the greatest heat when burned with the oil. If the inlet end of the passage 12 is located at the extreme top of the chamber the steam is too dry for the best efiects, and if located too low the large amount of moisture carried with the steam lowers the heating power of the flame. Thus by locating the inlet end of the passage 12 just below the top of the chamber I obtain the largest heating power in the flame.

Various modifications of my invention within the scope of the appended claim, may

permitted be made without departing from the spirit of my invention. Having thus described my I claim and desire to secure ent, is

In a hydro-carbon burner, abody having a goose neck portion and aportion With 'a plane deflecting surface, the body having extending through the goose neck portion an oil duct the discharge end of which is downwardly nclined and substantially perpendicula'l. to and is adapted to discharge a jet against said plane surface, the body having in the portion having the plane curfaee and in the goose neck portion a steam passage, the discharge end of which discharges into the oil duct toward the discharge end thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN R. GREEN.

invention, What by Letters Pat- VVitnesses:

E. B. HOUSE, FLORENCE M. VENDIG. 

